Then end FINALLY came, with an encore!

I loved reading this part of WTE when I was preggo and could not wait to post my story and now almost six weeks later I am finally finding time to do so... this is really long!

Okay so I was due in the middle of Sept and on the last day of Aug I started having labor pains. I was early (37 weeks) so my body was in charge and no drugs were able to be given until week 39 . . . so my DH takes me to the Evaluation unit and I am in labor (1+) but I stall out. . . "this could take weeks, go home. . . "

So the first goes by and I am in labor on and off but I just live through it . . . the second comes, I make it through my eight hour shift and dinner but at about 3:00am I tell my DH I can't take it we have to go . . . so we trek it back to the Evaluation Unit and I am strapped in for round two (I get admitted at a 2 ) and I am in labor and AGAIN I stall out but the keep me in a room for at risk labors just to keep an eye on me and medicate me so I can sleep . . . labor contractions and sleep do NOT mix well I this has been on and off for three days. . . (more on) when they finally let me leave I was a 4.5 + (after being a 4 THEN a 3 back up to a 4 in the matter of 18 hrs. . . confused? So were we).

The 3rd comes and I go to my doctors office to get a test run to determine if his lungs would let him come early and if so I was to be endused that night. Well, he heard that his birthday had arrived (or was going to) and he couldn't wait any longer and my water broke IN the office (across the street from the hospital thatnk goodness). So they check me out and I am a 5.5.

So I get to the the hosptial to get to delivery and guess what NO ROOM!! WTF!!! So I am stuck in evaluation until one is available (which translates into NO DRUGS!!) And I am there for two hours.. So I FINALLY get a room and the first person I talk to is the epi lady -- THANK GOD!! At this point I am a 6.5 but my contractions had stalled out. . . AGAIN! So they had to give me potocin. (sp?)

The epi wasn't bad, the worst part was holding still during contractions and resisting the urge to arch your back when you are being poked and pushed. I HATED being on that damn drug!!! I hate the shakes and that is a side effect and it made me so sick so they gave me something for that and that made me so Anxious and caused a panic attack so they gave me beneydral and that knocked me out. (Fine by me I was SO TIRED and the contactions hurt but were managable I just didn't want to feel the watermelon / lemon part).

During this time they had to break my water two more times because their was so much fluid and I kept getting major pockets they needed to burst. Plus, during the past four days LO was positioned head down but sideways and his head kept getting stuck behind the cervix and each time they checked my dialation I wanted to die!!!

Anyway, back from my small diagression, I woke up with the urge to push so they check me and I am fully dialated and effaced!! FINALLY! (Hallelujah chours here). Well, one small issue. . . LO had not dropped at all so they have me do a practive push . . I went from a 3+ to a 3- in one push . . . this was going to be easy right. . . Have you read the rest of this post. . . HELL NO!!! LO gets stuck!!!! His heart drops from 130 to 90 and they have me push again, he crowns he is a 190 hearbeat, then with each push for the next 25 mins he comes out up to his eyebrows and goes back in. . . the vaccum is used FOUR times.. . no luck... I'm on oxygen, deteremined, and scared. . . then my doctor gives up with trying to streach me (not a single tear this whole time) and decides she has no choice but to cut. So I get sliced horizonally on both sides and with half a push he is out! He gets rushed over to his bed for evaluation due to the stress of the delievery and they wait for the placenta, and wait, and give up and start the THIRTY stich process, FINISH it, still no placenta... so they make me start pushing again just to get the dang thing out. . . 3 pushes later . . .out it comes!!! REALLY????

Well, I ended up with a healthy 7lb 70z baby boy and that is a true blessing. My body was pretty beat up 30 stiches and hemrroids but for the first time in NINE months I did not have the urge to throw up! Within an hour I was walking on my own -- sore but able to walk normally like nothing happened and I was hungry for the first time in three weeks!

He gave us a few scares: turned blue in the face with a heart murrmer but the echo came back fine, he had sever jaundice (a 21 -- 25 causes brain damage) and he was hospitalized with the blue light special, and then got diagnosed with acid reflux which explained why he could only sleep sitting up.. . . but through it all we were so happy to have him that none of this mattered.

He is special because he is loved and I tell him that daily. But brothers or sisters. . . after all of that. . I don't know if I can do it again. We are blessed and that is what matters.

Sorry this is so long, if you have any quesitons on labor I will try to answer, if you stuck through this good for you and thank you for reading!!!

Best Wishes!

I loved reading this part of WTE when I was preggo and could not wait to post my story and now almost six weeks later I am finally finding time to do so... this is really long!

Okay so I was due in the middle of Sept and on the last day of Aug I started having labor pains. I was early (37 weeks) so my body was in charge and no drugs were able to be given until week 39 . . . so my DH takes me to the Evaluation unit and I am in labor (1+) but I stall out. . . "this could take weeks, go home. . . "

So the first goes by and I am in labor on and off but I just live through it . . . the second comes, I make it through my eight hour shift and dinner but at about 3:00am I tell my DH I can't take it we have to go . . . so we trek it back to the Evaluation Unit and I am strapped in for round two (I get admitted at a 2 ) and I am in labor and AGAIN I stall out but the keep me in a room for at risk labors just to keep an eye on me and medicate me so I can sleep . . . labor contractions and sleep do NOT mix well I this has been on and off for three days. . . (more on) when they finally let me leave I was a 4.5 + (after being a 4 THEN a 3 back up to a 4 in the matter of 18 hrs. . . confused? So were we).

The 3rd comes and I go to my doctors office to get a test run to determine if his lungs would let him come early and if so I was to be endused that night. Well, he heard that his birthday had arrived (or was going to) and he couldn't wait any longer and my water broke IN the office (across the street from the hospital thatnk goodness). So they check me out and I am a 5.5.

So I get to the the hosptial to get to delivery and guess what NO ROOM!! WTF!!! So I am stuck in evaluation until one is available (which translates into NO DRUGS!!) And I am there for two hours.. So I FINALLY get a room and the first person I talk to is the epi lady -- THANK GOD!! At this point I am a 6.5 but my contractions had stalled out. . . AGAIN! So they had to give me potocin. (sp?)

The epi wasn't bad, the worst part was holding still during contractions and resisting the urge to arch your back when you are being poked and pushed. I HATED being on that damn drug!!! I hate the shakes and that is a side effect and it made me so sick so they gave me something for that and that made me so Anxious and caused a panic attack so they gave me beneydral and that knocked me out. (Fine by me I was SO TIRED and the contactions hurt but were managable I just didn't want to feel the watermelon / lemon part).

During this time they had to break my water two more times because their was so much fluid and I kept getting major pockets they needed to burst. Plus, during the past four days LO was positioned head down but sideways and his head kept getting stuck behind the cervix and each time they checked my dialation I wanted to die!!!

Anyway, back from my small diagression, I woke up with the urge to push so they check me and I am fully dialated and effaced!! FINALLY! (Hallelujah chours here). Well, one small issue. . . LO had not dropped at all so they have me do a practive push . . I went from a 3+ to a 3- in one push . . . this was going to be easy right. . . Have you read the rest of this post. . . HELL NO!!! LO gets stuck!!!! His heart drops from 130 to 90 and they have me push again, he crowns he is a 190 hearbeat, then with each push for the next 25 mins he comes out up to his eyebrows and goes back in. . . the vaccum is used FOUR times.. . no luck... I'm on oxygen, deteremined, and scared. . . then my doctor gives up with trying to streach me (not a single tear this whole time) and decides she has no choice but to cut. So I get sliced horizonally on both sides and with half a push he is out! He gets rushed over to his bed for evaluation due to the stress of the delievery and they wait for the placenta, and wait, and give up and start the THIRTY stich process, FINISH it, still no placenta... so they make me start pushing again just to get the dang thing out. . . 3 pushes later . . .out it comes!!! REALLY????

Well, I ended up with a healthy 7lb 70z baby boy and that is a true blessing. My body was pretty beat up 30 stiches and hemrroids but for the first time in NINE months I did not have the urge to throw up! Within an hour I was walking on my own -- sore but able to walk normally like nothing happened and I was hungry for the first time in three weeks!

He gave us a few scares: turned blue in the face with a heart murrmer but the echo came back fine, he had sever jaundice (a 21 -- 25 causes brain damage) and he was hospitalized with the blue light special, and then got diagnosed with acid reflux which explained why he could only sleep sitting up.. . . but through it all we were so happy to have him that none of this mattered.

He is special because he is loved and I tell him that daily. But brothers or sisters. . . after all of that. . I don't know if I can do it again. We are blessed and that is what matters.

Sorry this is so long, if you have any quesitons on labor I will try to answer, if you stuck through this good for you and thank you for reading!!!

Congrats on your little man :) I am sorry to hear about your "fun" experience, but thank you for posting! It helps people like me who are preggo and want to know everything they can about giving birth. Lol

Congrats on your little man :) I am sorry to hear about your "fun" experience, but thank you for posting! It helps people like me who are preggo and want to know everything they can about giving birth. Lol

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